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Writing Quotes by V.S. Naipaul
- All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will…
- Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It…
- Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
- Writing has to support itself.
- That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which…
- One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
- I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
- If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
- Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
- If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
- My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
- When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
- Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
- The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I…
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